Now he had become enamored with the enthusiasm of a husky boy with an elegant and handsome dame, with a foreign woman who had made him forget his business, abandon his ship, and remain away, as though renouncing his family forever....

And poor Esteban, orphaned by his father's forgetfulness, had gone in search of him, with the adventurous impetuosity inherited from his ancestors: and death, a horrible death, had come to meet him on the road.
Something more than the grief of the outraged wife vibrated in Cinta's laments.

It was the rivalry with that woman of Naples, whom she believed a great lady with all the attractions of wealth and high birth.

She envied her superior weapons of seduction; she raged at her own modesty and humility as a home-keeping woman.
"I was resolved to ignore it all," she continued.

"I had one consolation,--my son.